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Molecular studies in Finnish patients with familial juvenile nephronophthisis exclude a founder effect and support a common mutation causing mechanism.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1998
Ala-Mello S, Sankila E M, Koskimies O, de la Chapelle A, Kääriäinen H
Abstract excerpt
Familial juvenile nephronophthisis (NPH) is an autosomal recessive tubulointerstitial kidney disease associated with formation of medullary and corticomedullary cysts. It progresses to end stage renal failure and its biochemical defect is unknown. An NPH locus has been assigned to a 2 cM interval on chromosome 2q13 by linkage studies. Homozygous deletions of approximately 250 kb have been detected in 80% of...
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